it's not too common to see kids with laptops at school here. you might get one student with one in a class, but i've yet to see two. even in large lectures (although i usually can't stay awake long enough to count too high in those classes )

i had a trapper keeper in 3rd grade. it had some funky space-airplanes on it.

We rarely have people using them in class. Most freshmen are now coming in w/ laptops instead of desktop and we see them a lot in the library and other buildings like the cafes where there is wireless, but not really in class. However, I go to a small school, so classes are pretty engaged - you have maybe 40 students max per class (except for the HUGE sections of BIO 141) and you're expected to contribute, ask/answer questions, etc or they WILL take points off your grade. So, a laptop is kinda useless unless you type word-for-word what the Prof. and everyone else says. They're not discouraged though and I have seen them in a few classes and never thought anything of it, I just found for myself the laptop and all it's gear is so much heavier than a notebook and pen.